Note: Before you proceed, please check the instructions for your generations.html
file and your newsgroups.html
file on how to format the various sections of this report. The instructions there also
apply here.

1) Introduction: xxx

Tell readers what they're going to find in your report and talk about yourself a little
in relation to web design: what did you know about it before you started; what was your
initial reaction; what is your current attitude towards it, especially whether or not it
has become part of your life, part of something you're going to think about from now on,
or not.

_____ 2) **Take a look at earlier generations for student reports on this topic.
Describe what the students are talking about by making a list of topics with a brief
annotation for each. Be sure to link to each one you discuss. Analyze the
level of the topics. Make sure you have a paragraph on each of these:

Do students differ in the level or depth of addressing a topic? Explain how. Do
they give general observations or explanations?

Do they make a conclusion?

Do they merely rephrase someone else's topic or they advance it?

What is he role of personal experience in these email messages?

What are they affected by and respond to (e.g., someone's declaration or opinion or
action)?

3) Web Designer Principles As I See It: xxx

(a) Go to this address and poke around for awhile (lots to explore...).

Be sure to have your word processor open at the same time and type in things
when the thoughts actually occur to you. Don't wait for later or rely on memory and
impression, if you want a valid, objective report!! Remember: Truth in advertising --
"What I write is what I think and feel." ((But please: write in a style that is
comprehensible and pleasing to the general others!!))

(b) What is the purpose of this Site, as you see it? Describe its links and what you
think they mean.

(c) Explore each link and summarize whatever you can understand, using copy/paste
techniques and links and your descriptions or interpretations in your own words. You can
number the points sequentially as "Principles I Understand". You don't have to
discuss things you don't understand. Remember: you're writing for future students and
visitors and you want to accomplish two purposes:

(I) Give them useful information to browse through as processed by your unique mind.
Don't just paraphrase because then the reports of everyone in this class will sound the
same!!

(II) Give them a happy time while learning about the information -- so you can use your
own flavor of humor (in good taste) or whatever...to accomplish this purpose.

4) Psychological Aspects to Web Design: xxx

(a) Go to the instructor's article on the social psychology of home page architecture
and pick three favorite ideas from it. Explain each in your own words and why they are
your favorites. Use copy/paste and links to illustrate from the article.

(b) Now compare the principles you elaborated above to these psychological principles.
Make a connection for an overall picture.

5) What It's Like to Become a Web Designer: xxx

Give your biography as a web designer:

(a) where you started from

(b) what you went through

(c) where you are now

(d) what's ahead for you

(e) what advice you have for future generations?

(f) what advice you have for the instructor with regard to his attempt to build the
online generational community classroom.?

6. Annotated Index to Web Design: xxx

Search the Internet for articles that discuss the psychological forces in web design
and navigation. Describe how you found them and what each says in relation to the topics
you discussed in your report.

_____ 7) Add a centered h1 or h2 heading, calling the document:

Social Psychology of Web Architecture:
xxxx

Note: the XXX means you have to make up your own sub-title--something that
reflects your approach, style, and theme. Do this after you finish your report and
you know how it turned out! But don't forget to do it--don't leave the XXX there!!

_____ 8) Put this in your HTML [title] field (or use Page Properties
command): Gender Differences in Driving by FN/ LN, Gxx/ Year, University of Hawaii

_____ 9) Place a Table of Contents at the top of the document with links to
all the sub-sections.

_____ Note: Students often forget this item--but it is required: The first
item in the Table of Contents MUST be called Instructions for this Report and it
must be a live link to this document. Points will be deducted if you forget this
requrement! Do it now.

_____ 10) Be sure you add a Navigation Table and e-mail button
at the bottom of the document. This is a requirment for all your
documents. Check now now to see if you have on in all your documents. Do it
now!

_____ 11) Using your web browser, check your document screen by screen: no screen
should be made of just one paragraph (i.e., no paragraph should exceed one screen
full--it's too hard to read that way!) Just look at every screen: it should
not be made up of all text--separate using paragraph breaks.

_____ 12) Spell check your document before uploading!!

_____ 13) Check the visibility of your text: patterned backgrounds are not allowed.
Darker colors are not allowed. White bgcolor is always excellent, especially if you vary
the font face, color, and size to enhance visibility and emphasis (no blinking text
allowed). Remember: your text looks different in different browsers and computers, so you
need to experiment and ask others. You may also use graphic enhancers such as color bars,
color dots, icons. However, animated icons are a problem if they distract attention from
the text. Using the Table tag in html allows easy control over the color of each column
and the placement of text on the screen. See this
example for how to change the color of fonts. See this student's effective use of varied font
faces, colors, and sizes.

_____ 14) Check the way your document loads after it contains everything. How long does
it take? Does text appear on the screen while one waits, or is it blank? Slow loads and
blank screens are not allowed, so you must choose graphics that are low in memory size!